If you've never read up on Zebulon Pike, I recommend doing so.
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Sweet!
More online investigation than onsite exploration these days.
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
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Good idea. I remember knowing some stuff about him once upon a time.. but not so much anymore. My default audiobook while traveling is Lewis and Clark's journals and when I finish that I go to the Daniel Boone biography "Blood and Treasure". Also recommend the autobiography of Black Hawk.
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Pretty sweet find!
You need to invest in a hand held gimbal for your camera, especially for video in the car.
More online investigation than onsite exploration these days.
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
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Yeah that's actually something that's been on my radar, but they don't really have any good options for a DSLR that are remotely compact. I've thought about getting a small pocket gimbal camera for situations that call for such a thing, but haven't pulled the trigger yet because of cost/availability and because it would throw off the feng shui of my camera bag, etc.
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Hydroelectric Power Plant #4
I've been fucking up lately and am currently behind on my videos. I'll get the videos for these two hydro plants up soonish.
I've been fucking up lately and am currently behind on my videos. I'll get the videos for these two hydro plants up soonish.
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Two Small Hydroelectric Power Plants in Colorado
This post is just a little double-feature of two small hydro plants in Colorado. Not an exploration.
Ruxton is just a little old plant inaccessible to the public out in the middle of nowhere. We were given a ride out to it on the same trip as the Lake Moraine visit.
Georgetown is a little old semi-publicly accessible hydro plant that has been sorta turned into a museum. The weird thing about it is they don't let you go get up close to the equipment though, which was disappointing. The internet says it's still operational but when we went, we were told that's no longer the case. Evidently the power company still has to occasionally access some monitoring equipment and since some of the equipment is still doing something, they don't let you anywhere near it. Still a fine way to spend an hour or so but it will be infinitely cooler when they actually let people go in the generating room.
This post is just a little double-feature of two small hydro plants in Colorado. Not an exploration.
Ruxton is just a little old plant inaccessible to the public out in the middle of nowhere. We were given a ride out to it on the same trip as the Lake Moraine visit.
Georgetown is a little old semi-publicly accessible hydro plant that has been sorta turned into a museum. The weird thing about it is they don't let you go get up close to the equipment though, which was disappointing. The internet says it's still operational but when we went, we were told that's no longer the case. Evidently the power company still has to occasionally access some monitoring equipment and since some of the equipment is still doing something, they don't let you anywhere near it. Still a fine way to spend an hour or so but it will be infinitely cooler when they actually let people go in the generating room.
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video: Water Works #2
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Ghost Towns, Bad Lands and Yellow Stones (RE-EDITED)
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I FINALLY got around to properly "scanning" all the 35mm film I shot on my epic Yellowstone road trip. Until now, the only digital versions I had were very low quality JPGs which the camera shop supplied me with as essentially just preview files.
The trip was almost entirely shot on 35mm film* through a 40+ year old camera I had just bought and hadn't even tested yet. I only used my DSLR twice; once for testing long exposure settings at night and then at the very end of the trip after the film was used up.
My carelessness wasn't intentional; the film camera I had planned to use had completely broke down on me at Armour just before this trip and I didn't have a whole lot of time to find and test a suitable replacement beforehand. The replacement seemed mechanically sound and I decided to "full send" it.
I wanted to challenge myself photographically and I thought doing an epic road trip to the Badlands and Yellowstone and shooting the whole thing on an old film camera would do the trick. As it turned out, it wasn't very challenging but it definitely mixed things up a bit. As long as you have a working light meter, photography is easy regardless of whether it's film or digital.
I just got done "scanning" the negatives with my digital camera and a macro lens. The results are a HUGE improvement over the previous versions although the overall quality is still only "okay". This is mostly attributable to the fact that I was using basic/cheap film and the camera and lens were old and essentially just basic models themselves, nothing special or expensive (Canon A-1).
This remains my longest road trip ever.
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Ghost Towns, Bad Lands and Yellow Stones (RE-EDITED)
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I FINALLY got around to properly "scanning" all the 35mm film I shot on my epic Yellowstone road trip. Until now, the only digital versions I had were very low quality JPGs which the camera shop supplied me with as essentially just preview files.
The trip was almost entirely shot on 35mm film* through a 40+ year old camera I had just bought and hadn't even tested yet. I only used my DSLR twice; once for testing long exposure settings at night and then at the very end of the trip after the film was used up.
My carelessness wasn't intentional; the film camera I had planned to use had completely broke down on me at Armour just before this trip and I didn't have a whole lot of time to find and test a suitable replacement beforehand. The replacement seemed mechanically sound and I decided to "full send" it.
I wanted to challenge myself photographically and I thought doing an epic road trip to the Badlands and Yellowstone and shooting the whole thing on an old film camera would do the trick. As it turned out, it wasn't very challenging but it definitely mixed things up a bit. As long as you have a working light meter, photography is easy regardless of whether it's film or digital.
I just got done "scanning" the negatives with my digital camera and a macro lens. The results are a HUGE improvement over the previous versions although the overall quality is still only "okay". This is mostly attributable to the fact that I was using basic/cheap film and the camera and lens were old and essentially just basic models themselves, nothing special or expensive (Canon A-1).
This remains my longest road trip ever.
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Hospital #7
This post kinda snuck up on me and went live before I had gotten around to adding any history details to it so, uh, I'll add some words to it soon.
This post kinda snuck up on me and went live before I had gotten around to adding any history details to it so, uh, I'll add some words to it soon.
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Video for Hospital #7
I also updated the site's real information in the blog post for a variety of reasons including the fact that this place was already long ago ID'd (indirectly but still easily found) by the first few people who posted it online back in like 2019 so it's no secret-especially considering it's next door to the local high school.
I also updated the site's real information in the blog post for a variety of reasons including the fact that this place was already long ago ID'd (indirectly but still easily found) by the first few people who posted it online back in like 2019 so it's no secret-especially considering it's next door to the local high school.
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Do you know if they're going to salvage any of the bricks or are they tossing them all in the landfill?
More online investigation than onsite exploration these days.
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
“My dear fellow, who will let you?”
“That’s not the point. The point is, who will stop me?”
-Ayn Rand
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No idea. One would hope they would be repurposed.Nicotti wrote: Thu Jun 04, 2026 10:29 pmDo you know if they're going to salvage any of the bricks or are they tossing them all in the landfill?